About

ArtsShare
is an innovative online platform that is designed to revolutionize the way we
think about the arts, their accessibility and role in the everyday lives of
people. In summary, ArtsShare permits artists to share their arts in exchange
for anything from housing to studio space, performance opportunities, meals,
transportation and so much more. At the same time, it also allows people from
all walks of life and varying degrees of resources to offer their homes, unused
cars, airline miles or other amenities or talents in exchange for artistic
products or experiences. Ultimately, ArtsShare will allow the arts to be
accessed and become integrated into the lives of people to an unprecedented extent
through this groundbreaking platform.

During an
age when sharing economy models are being explored worldwide and when the arts
are more necessary than, perhaps, ever before, ArtsShare serves as the bridge
that connects people through the arts. A young family with a spare room can
simply offer temporary housing in exchange for yoga lessons, tutoring in
language arts or piano lessons. A retiree can pursue a lifelong dream for voice
lessons in exchange for a weekly meal with a recent conservatory graduate.
Families can plan an evening of musical theater in their home in exchange for
the use of space in their home for weekly rehearsals…examples are simply
limitless, from the visual to performing and healing arts, to design, martial
arts and far beyond. The possibilities to be realized through ArtsShare are
truly only limited by its users.

ArtsShare
is an open free exchange of arts-related services and products for anything
else of value without any fees or other associated costs. At the core of
ArtsShare is the idea of artists trading their work for what they need to not
only survive but thrive and succeed, while an everyday person can trade
anything they have for a desired artistic product, service or experience,
without needing to exchange money. The value inherent in the offerings on
ArtsShare lives in the arts themselves and what we are able to provide in
exchange for having them in our lives. And for artists themselves, it is a way
to sustain their careers and offset the necessary costs otherwise associated
with their lifestyles.